The price select field allows you to add a currency amount to your form that is determined by a web user making a selection from a pull-down list. These are managed in much the same way as a normal select field, except the value of the options are currency amounts.
These fields are included in the total cart calculation of your form. If you add a price select field in isolation on your form, your total cart calculation will equal the value of that price field. If you add more price fields and/or quantity fields, the total cart calculation will equal the sum of all the fields. This means you can build virtually any combination or e-commerce fields to suit your requirements.
If you add a payment field, such as PayPal, to your form, you can apply the cart total amount to that payment by entering #ecommerce_cart_total into the transaction amount field or by leaving that field blank.
Demo
To learn how to add, edit, clone, move, resize, offset, or delete a price select field, please click here.
To edit the settings for this field type, click the settings icon on the field itself. Click the Save & Close or Save button to save your changes. If you do not want to save your changes, you can click the Cancel button or click any other form element to close the field settings sidebar.
Basic
The basic tab contains settings that the majority of WS Form users will need to control a field. The settings are as follows:
Label
This is the label shown alongside the field. As well as entering a label into this field, you can also double click the label of the field in the editor. You should enter an easy-to-understand label for your field, for example, First Name or Email.
Show Label
If enabled the label will be shown on your form. If you do not want the label to appear for a particular field, uncheck this box.
Required
If checked this field will be required when the website visitor completes your form. Failure to complete the field if this is checked will result in a validation message appearing under the field prompting the user to complete the field correctly.
Required fields are indicated on your website with the word Required being adding to the label of the field. This can be changed in the form settings advanced tab.
Hidden
If checked the field will be hidden on the form. It can be shown again using conditional logic or your own JavaScript.
Multiple
Enabling this feature will enable the website visitor to select more than one option when submitting the form.
Selecting multiple options varies in different operating systems and browsers:
- For Windows: Hold down the control (CTRL) button to select multiple options.
- For Mac: Hold down the command button to select multiple options.
Because of the different ways of doing this, and because you have to inform the user that multiple selection is available, you may wish to consider using checkboxes instead.
Default Value
If a value is entered into this setting, the option containing that value will be selected by default. Note that this value needs to be the option value not the text shown for the option.
Comma separated values can be entered into this setting. Values will be trimmed.
Other ways of setting the default value, include:
- Select rows in the Options tab using the Selected icon. Learn more
- Set the default value using PHP. Learn more
- Use the WordPress Filter Hook Data Source. Learn more
Size
Select fields are typically one row tall. You can make a Select field taller by increasing this value. For example, setting the size to 5 will make the Select field 5 rows tall. This feature is useful if you enable Multiple to allow the website visitor to select multiple options.
First Row Placeholder
The first row placeholder is used to add a single option at the top of the drop-down list, such as Select. It is assigned no value, so if the website visitor does not select an option, the field will be considered empty.
WS Form variables can be entered into this field.
Help Text
The help text setting enables you to add smaller text under the field to assist the website visitor in completing that field.
As well as inserting plain text into this field, WS Form also provides extensive functionality for adding character and word count information. Click here to learn more about this functionality.
WS Form variables can be entered into this field.
Auto Complete
Web browsers sometimes have features for helping users fill forms in, for example pre-filling the user’s address based on earlier user input. The autocomplete content attribute can be used to hint to the web browser how to, or indeed whether to, provide such a feature.
Use this setting if you would like to specify the value of the autocomplete attribute. Use the off option to prevent auto complete on the field.
Select2
Enable
Enabling Select2 will initialize the jQuery Select2 plugin on the select field. This provides users with the ability to search for options by typing a keyword. Learn more.
The default Select2 configuration settings in WS Form are:
- Clearable Selections – Enabled.
- Language – Set to WordPress locale.
- Placeholder – Populated with Placeholder Row text.
If you wish to use a custom Select2 configuration, click here.
Use AJAX
When this setting is checked, WS Form will retrieve matching results via AJAX. This means that the options are not pre-loaded on the page which can improve page loading times for larger datasets.
Note that if you are using the Cascade Use AJAX option, this setting will not be available because the field is already using AJAX to retrieve data.
Prefix / Suffix
The prefix and suffix settings allow you to add a prefix box and/or suffix box to the field.
For example, you could add a unit of measure as a suffix, or an @ symbol as a prefix.
Accessibility
ARIA Label
Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) defines ways to make web content and web applications more accessible to people with disabilities.
This setting enables you to define what text is made available to ARIA applications. This would, for example, provide a screen reader with specific text to read to someone with a disability.
The value of this setting defaults to your field label. If you would like to change this, enter a new value.
WS Form variables can be entered into this field.
Exclusions
Exclude From Emails
By default, WS Form uses the #email_submission
variable in email templates. This provides a simple way of displaying all of the submitted fields in emails. Sometimes there might be a need to exclude a field from an email, for example, you might want to not include some introductory copy on a form, or hide a field you’re using with conditional logic to show or hide an element.
To hide a field from emails, check this box.
Other WS Form add-ons may add exclusions in this section too, such as the WooCommerce add-on which allows you to exclude certain fields from the cart entries.
Exclude From Cart Total
If checked, this field will be excluded from the form cart total calculations.
Hidden Behavior
These settings allow you to change the behavior of a field if the hidden setting is checked (See above), or if you set a field as hidden using conditional logic.
Always Include in Actions
The normal behavior for a field that has been hidden is that it will not be included if an action has a Clear Hidden Fields setting enabled. For example, if you have a Send Email action, WS Form will not include fields that are hidden.
If this setting is checked, this field will always be included in actions if it is hidden.
Always Include in Cart Total
The normal behavior for an e-commerce field that has been hidden is that it will not be included in the Cart Total calculation.
If this setting is checked, this field will always be included in the Cart Total calculation if it is hidden.
Advanced
The advanced tab contains additional form attribute settings that provide further control over how a field is rendered.
Styles
Use the Styles settings to change the design of the price select field.
Label Position
There are five positions you can choose from for your label:
- Default
- Top
- Left
- Right
- Bottom
The default position will place the label set in the form settings advanced tab. For new forms this will be the Top positioning.
Note that when using some frameworks some label positions may not be available.
Label Width
If your label position is set to left or right, you can specify how wide the label will be. You can consider the overall width of the label and the field to be 12 columns (or whatever value is set in Form Settings). By default, labels are rendered at 3 columns wide (1/4 width), which means the field itself is 9 columns wide (3/4 width). You can change the width of the label using this setting.
To change the default width of all labels in your form:
1. Click the form settings icon.
2. Click the Advanced tab.
3. Scroll down to Default Label Width and change the setting.
4. Click Save at the bottom.
Vertical Alignment
The vertical alignment option allows you to choose how this field will be vertically aligned in relation to fields in the same row. The options are:
- Top
- Middle
- Bottom
Classes
For developers WS Form allows you to add your own classes to fields.
Field Wrapper
The wrapper CSS class setting enables you to add a class (or classes) to a field wrapper. Field wrappers are sections of HTML added around a field to position them on the page. To add multiple classes, add a space between the class names.
Field
To add a class to the actual field element itself, enter a class (or classes) to this setting. To add multiple classes, add a space between the class names.
Restrictions
Field restrictions enable you to define what can or cannot be entered into the field.
Disabled
If checked the field will be disabled, and it cannot be interacted with. You can re-enable a field dynamically by using conditional logic.
User Status
Choose from one of the options to filter which user status can see this field:
- Any
- Is Logged In
- Is Logged Out
- Has User Role or Capability
If you choose Has User Role or Capability, additional settings will appear that enable you to choose one or more roles or capabilities.
Duplicates
No Duplicates in Repeatable Sections
This setting only applies to select fields that are within a repeatable section. It prevents the same option from being selected across multiple repeatable section rows. For example, if you had a select field with t-shirt sizes and selected Small in the first row, then the Small option will be disabled in all other rows.
Validation
Show Invalid Feedback
Invalid feedback text is shown when a form is saved or submitted, and the field has not been completed according to the field settings you have configured. For example if the minimum character count is 10 and you enter 5 characters and then submit the form, the field will be deemed invalid. If this setting is checked, invalid feedback is shown under the field.
Invalid Feedback Text
WS Form automatically builds invalid feedback text for all of your fields. If no text is entered into this field, the value shown in the field in light gray text will be shown. If you would like to specify alternative invalid feedback text, you can enter it within this setting.
WS Form variables can be entered into this field.
Custom Attributes
This setting is used to add custom attributes to the HTML of this field, such as data-my-attribute="1234"
. You can add as many custom attributes as you need.
To add a custom attributes key value pair:
- Click the Add icon to add a custom attribute row.
- Enter the key in the left column.
- Enter the value in the right column.
- Click Save to save the custom attributes.
Breakpoints
The breakpoint settings define the width of a field and also what the offset (how many columns from the left-hand side of the form or the previous field) of a field is for each breakpoint. For more information about the breakpoint settings and capabilities of WS Form, click here.
Options
The options in the price select drop-down menu are configured in this tab. Options are added using the data grid feature of WS Form. Data grids make entering lists of information quick and easy.
Using the data grid, you can mark a row as selected, disabled, or hidden. You can also create opt-groups, which allow you to group options together. For example, this feature could be used to split a product list into categories.
You need to specify a product name and price column for the options. When you add a new price select field, it is pre-populated with three example products that you can change or delete.
For more information about using WS Form data grids, click here.
Column Mapping
Label
Choose the column in your data grid that contains the labels to be shown to the user when they are viewing your form.
Value
Choose the column in your data grid that contains unique values to used. This is the value that is saved to the submission.
Price
Choose the column in your data grid that contains the price to be used for each product.
Action Variables
Choose the column in your data grid that is used when you use variables such as #field or #email_submission when used in actions (e.g. Send Email).
Cascading
Cascading allows you to filter the options available in your select field by using the value of another field on your form. An example application of this feature would be to filter a select pull down of vehicle models by another select field containing vehicle makes.
Cascade
Check this setting to enable the cascading feature on this field.
Filter Column
The filter column setting allows you to choose which column of your data grid you want your options to be filtered by. In most cases you will want to create a new column that contains values you want to filter by.
Filter Value
The filter value setting allows you to choose which field on your form to filter your select options by in the filter column.
The following field types can be used for the filter value:
- Text
- Number
- Range Slider
- Rating
- Select
- Checkbox
- Radio
- Price Select
- Price Checkbox
- Price Radio
- Price Range
WS Form uses the Value column mapping of select, checkbox and radio fields for the filter value.
You should ensure that the value(s) returned by the Filter Value field match the values in your Filter Column exactly (Case sensitive).
No Results Placeholder
If no results are found, then this placeholder will be shown in the select field. This defaults to Select… but you can change this to anything you wish, e.g. Select Make
Show All If No Results
Enable this setting if you want WS Form to show all available results if no matching results are found.
Use AJAX
For larger datasets this setting can considerably speed up page loading times and filtering operations. With this setting enabled, WS Form will:
- No longer include the select data in your initial page load, thus reducing your initial page load time.
- Make an AJAX request and filter the results server-side each time the filter value is changed.
Loading Placeholder
This placeholder is shown in the select field while the AJAX process is retrieving records. This defaults to Loading… but you can change this to anything you wish, e.g. Retrieving Records.